Chapter 78

Chapter 78
Scarlett’s POV

I dozed off a bit but before sunrise, I had dressed up and picked up some wire and a dagger. I didn’t have the keys to Marie's cell so I planned to pick the lock. If I had to face her one-on-one, I was sure to win and that’s why I took my dagger, in case things got messy I would stab her.

I slowly went down the stairs, then my nose twitched, and I was smelling something very familiar. It was Jack! His smell was a bit faint but I could still smell him. As I got closer, I stretched my neck and saw a figure in royal clothes inside Marie’s cell. They were talking in whispers but I could still hear them.

“It’s no longer okay for you to be here, you need to leave,” a deep voice whispered.
“I can’t leave, not without you,” the softer voice argued.

“Can’t you see the situation in which you find yourself? There’s no time to waste.”
“Then make love to me, you promised to do it…”

My heart started pounding wildly, as I peeped through, I saw Jack with his back turned to the cell door kissing Marie. Jack was supposed to be my mate so why was he kissing another woman? With tears in my eyes, I ran out of the tunnel and up the stairs in tears, I couldn’t do this anymore. I had to leave Jack. I should’ve done it a long time ago! Then maybe Becky would have still been alive and I wouldn’t have had to endure so much pain. 

I dashed back to my room and packed a few of my things, I didn’t need the rest, they belonged to the royal family anyway. After packing I sat on the floor and wept. When I was sure that there were no tears left to cry I got up and went to the throne room where he was in the company of some of his elders.  They all excused us when I walked in.

“From the start, you were always going to reject me, right?”
He looked confused,

“What are you talking about?”
“Don’t act like you don’t know! I already found out. I saw you with my eyes this morning! You’ve been sleeping with that girl. You don’t have to pretend anymore.”

“Scarlett, I know you’re upset but what on earth are you talking about?” He queried me. He looked so innocent that if I hadn’t seen him in that dungeon I would have believed this act.

“I am giving you permission to go and be with that girl! I Scarlett Jordan, reject you, Jack Wilson as my mate. You're a free man now! Just go and be with her!” It was painful, immensely painful but I walked away.

He followed me but shifted into a wolf and howled loudly at him.

“If you follow me I will harm myself!” I threatened him. That scared him, he stopped following me and stood there with his hand clutched to his chest, growling loudly. I ignored him and kept going till I was no longer in the pack house.

I didn’t go back home either, I landed in the forest and I kept going, maybe I will leave Silvermoon forever, that’s the only way to cure my heartache.

Marie’s POV

“Princess Dawn! I’m sorry that I left you in this state, I promise to get you out as soon as possible.” Bliss assuringly said to me. I was even bothered about being in a dungeon, I was more bothered about why he was dressed in the king’s clothes. Couldn’t he have disguised himself as a bird like he always did?

“How did you get the king’s clothes?” I asked, barely paying attention to what he was saying.

“They were on the drying line. I dressed up as a servant and picked it up from the line.
“Why? Don’t you know it’s risky?” I scolded him, “What if they arrest and detain you too? How are we going to get out of here?”

“I couldn’t have disguised myself as a bird,”
“Why not?”

“The queen gave a decree yesterday that any flying creature must be shot down. I knew I was her target. When I heard it, I acted quickly. Also about the clothes nobody can come here except for the king, that’s why I dressed like this and stepped in here when the guards were busy doing something else, they didn’t even try to stop me…”

“SShhhh,” I hissed, we could hear footsteps approaching. Since Bliss had sharper senses I relied on his nose but he also couldn’t tell who it was. I listened carefully to the sound of the footsteps. They were too light to be Jack’s, too gentle to be a man. It sounded like a woman so perhaps the queen.

Bliss began to panic, we both were tensed with no idea of what to do when suddenly it hit me,

“You’re in the king’s clothes, you probably smell like him, turn in such a way that your back faces the entrance. Nobody is supposed to be here, if she sees the king here she won’t approach any further.

Bliss didn't ask too many questions, he only nodded and then did exactly as I said. We started having a fake conversation, hoping the intruder would leave, but for a while, the footsteps stopped. We didn't hear it, so I leaned on the bars of my cell door and kissed him. I know this will upset the queen, she will leave the tunnel in a few seconds. We weren’t wrong it worked, before we knew it the footsteps got distant till we weren’t hearing them anymore.

I looked up at Bliss as he looked down at me, 

“Please hang around, I think that victory is near, I know the king will come here to see me, hover around till that happens. In this dungeon will he be killed and leave together.” 

“That reminds me, your highness, where is your keepsake?”
Damn! How could I have forgotten about that?